2010 Reading List

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January

After the Baby Boomers… by Robert Wuthnow
Called Out of Darkness… by Anne Rice
Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic… by Francis Chan
The Quest for Shakespeare by Joseph Pearce
Twentieth-Century Theologians… by Philip Kennedy

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February

A People’s History of Christianity… by Diana Butler Bass
Primal: A Quest for the… by Mark Batterson
The Godly Man’s Picture by Thomas Watson
The Mortification of Sin by John Owen
Transforming Church in Rural America by Shannon O’Dell

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March

Politics for Christians… by Francis J. Beckwith
Medieval Trinitarian Thought from… by Russell L. Friedman
The Last Boom by James Anthony Clark
Spindletop: The True Story… by James Anthony Clark
Ecology, Production, & Management… by F. M. “Monte” Rouquette

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April

Keeping The Heart by John Flavel
God’s Undertaker: Has Science… by Dr. John C. Lennox
Metaphysics: Constructing… by William Hasker
The Horse Has Six Legs by Charles Simic
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere

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May

Fourteen Pews and a Casserole… by Jason Byassee
Kerouac’s Crooked Road by Tim Hunt
The Best of It: New & Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
This Book Will Change Your World… by Kevin A. Beck
To Serve God and Mammon… by Ted G. Jelen

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June

Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises… by Tim Keller
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith… by David Platt
The Christian West & Its Singers… by Christopher Page
Theodore Roosevelt’s History of the United States by Daniel Ruddy
Thirty Years That Changed The World… by Michael Green

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July

American Scripture… by Pauline Maier
Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale by Ian M. Cron
Family Worship: in the Bible, in History… by Donald S. Whitney
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence… by Francis S. Collins
There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist… by Antony Flew

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August

A Timbered Choir: the Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry
How People Change by Paul David Tripp
Jesus & Gin: Evangelicalism… by Barry Hankins
Jesus, the Only Way to God… by John Piper
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith… by David Platt

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September

Almost Christian: What the Faith… by Kenda Creasy Dean
Christians and Pagans… by Malcolm Lambert
Hipster Christianity: When Church… by Brett McCracken
To Change the World: The Irony… by James Davison Hunter
Your Child’s Profession of Faith by Dennis Gundersen

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October

A History of the Protestant Reformation… by William Cobbett
Eric Liddell: Pure Gold by David McCasland
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Martin Luther: A Life by Martin E. Marty
The God of Loneliness by Philip Schultz

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November

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Strange Likeness: the Use of Old English… by Chris Jones
Within the Temple of the Soul by Matthew R. A. Bingham

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December

Bowling Alone: The Collapse… by Robert D. Putnam
Image, Text, and Religious Reform… by Shannon Gayk
The Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White
The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation… by Russell J. Dalton
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s… by Samuel P. Huntington

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…other books I’m looking forward to reading in 2011:

American Grace: How Religion Divides… by David E. Campbell
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts & Translations by Bart Ehrman
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy… by James Davison Hunter

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2009 Reading List
2008 Reading List (coming someday!)
2007 Reading List
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2005 Reading List
2004 Reading List

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